I'm a happy participant of the large scale deployement session. This session is dedicated to create a "white book" to help organisation to deploy large scale projects.

First things first :

  • What is large scale deployement ?

Numbers are not enough : for small organization a 10 computer deployment can be large scale. So it really depends on where you start from ! However some very interesting ideas came out :

  • It has to have a strong impact on every user targeted by the new system or by the upgrade

Some characteristics now :

  • Need at least a pilot project
  • Take at least one year to completely deploy the project
  • Need specific change management in order to assist users

What is a successfull project :

  • 100% of the users are using the system (it can takes some times)
  • The project empowers the users
  • The project is repeatable, scalable, affordable and sustainable
  • The project has a strong and positive impact on how things are done after the project has been rolled out

It has been a very interesting day and some very interesting discussions occurs.

More to come...